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Computing the volume of convex bodies : a case where randomness provably helps
journal contribution
posted on 1991-01-01, 00:00 authored by Martin Dyer, FriezeAbstract: "We discuss the problem of computing the volume of a convex body K in R[superscript n]. We review worst-case results which show that it is hard to deterministically approximate vol[subscript n]K and randomised approximation algorithms which show that with randomisation one can approximate very nicely. We then provide some applications of this latter result."